As Nuance's chief technology officer, Vlad Sejnoha oversees the company's research and focuses on core technology and product strategy with an emphasis on emerging areas, including natural-language processing and mobile applications.

Prior to joining Nuance, Vlad was the chief scientist at L&H, and earlier at Kurzweil AI, where he was responsible for creating technology for a number of commercially successful speech recognition products, including large-vocabulary continuous-speech dictation systems. Vlad has over 20 years' experience in the field of speech recognition and holds 13 US patents.